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Wyse Jweph, fried fish shop, 14~ Desborough road Young G. J. & Co. rope & twine manufrs. 7 Paul's r!lw Yonens John, basket maker, 3 Church sq. & Castle st Young & Co. chemists, White Hart street Youers William, antique dealer, ~o Crendon street

WEST WYCOMBE is an extensive parish on the three Wesleyan, one Congregational and two--Primitiv~ London and Oxford road, with a station on the main line Methodist chapels. Lady Anne .Pye's charity of about • of the Great Western and Great Central joint railway, £g yearly is for widows and education of children; 26 miles from London and 2~ west from , John Hunt bequeathed £r yearly to the poor; Andrew in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Des­ Hunt, by will, dated March 23rd, 1667, left £5 to the borough, second division of Desborough petty sessional vicar to preach several sermons in the. year and £5 division, High Wycombe union and county court dis­ yearly to the poor, to be paid out of his estate in this trict, rural deanery of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buck­ paril'h; Hugh Hobbs, by will, dated Jan. 2nd, r67o, ingham and dim;ese of Oxford. The river Wye, or left £2 yearly to the poor widows and aged psople. Wyck, which passes through High Wycombe, Loud­ Some of the above mentioned, together with severaL nter and Wooburn and thence falls into the river other charities once existing here, have now lapsed. Thames, rises in Lang .Meadow, on the West Wycombe Under the church hill is a cave 400 yards long, with estate, and runs through the park belonging fO West large roams and long winding passages, which is much Wycombe House. By the Local Government Board's visited by strangers during the summer. Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 6) Act, I9CJI, part The church loft, a building in the main street, is used of West Wycombe was added to the civil parish and for vestry meetings and for the Sunday school; project­ municipal borough of High Wycombe. The church of St. ing from it and overhanging the pavement is an ancient Lawrence, standing on the top of a steep hill, ie a clock, and on an upright from one of the. beams inside !trocture of brick, flint and stom~ in the Classic style, con­ is the date, r676, and other lettering. @isting of chancel, nave, north porch, and an embattled West Wycombe Park is the seat of Lady Dashwood; western tower containing 6 bells, one of which i~ dated the house is situated in a well-wooded park of 300 Ij8I : the lower and more ancient part of the tower is acres, was built by Sir Francis Dashwood, rst hart. built of stone and at the top of the tower is a large ball, and subsequently enlarged and beautified by his son, eapable of seating IO persons and about 640 feet above Lord Le Despencer, and is a handsome mansion in the sea level; the upper portion of the tower is of bricl• several styles, containing some fine paintings; the great and was added when the body of the church was rebuilt hall, measuring 52 by 22 feet, is supported by four in 1763, at a cost of £6,ooo, by Sir Francis Dashwood cGlumns and the grand staircase is balustraded in bart. subsequently summoned to Parliament, on the mahogany and richly decorated. The trustees of the death of hi~ uncle, John, Earl of Westmorland, in 1762, late Sir George Henry Dashwood bart. are lords of the as Baron Le Despencer: the nave is very lofty and has a manor and principal landowners. 1'he soil is chiefly painted {!eiling with cornice, supported on bold pilasters chalk with large beech woods, the value of which has with Corinthian capitals; the chancel has a painting in caused the place to become a chair-making district ; oils by Borgnais of the "Last Supper;" and alSQ contains subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and . several mural tablets to the Dashwood family : in the oats. The area is 6,422 acres of land and 3r of water; church is an ancient and curious font stand of carved assessable value, £9,470; the population in rgor was cak, representing a serpent, climbing after a bird ; on 2,786 in the civil and 3,071 in the ecclesiastical pari~h. the flat top stand four birds, and placed amidst these is HOOKER, 2 miles south-east; WHE,.ELER END, 2~ a silver gilt cup; the pulpit and reading desk and other miles south-west; DOWNLEY, r! miles south-east and. fittings are handsomely carved : the church affords part of LANE END, 4 miles south-west, are parts of· 500 sittings, but on account of its inconvenient position, this parish. is now only used in the summer time. Close to the east Parish Clerk, John Fryer. end of ths church is a hexagonal inclosure of flint, built by Lord Ls Despencer in 1763 as a mausoleum for his Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Constance Reintgen, sub­ family; the walls are ornamented with a frieze and postmistress. Letters arrive from High Wycombe at cornice, supported by 'l'uscan , and within niches 6.30 a. m. & 12 noon & 4·45 p.m.; dispatched at 111 35 are monumental urns, one of which is to the memory of & 6. Io p.m. No lOUnday post Post Office, Downley.-Thomas .Martin, sub-postmaster. Lord Le Despencer, who died II Sept. r78r: there is also a monument to his father, Sir Francil5 Dashwood hart. Letters through High Wycombe a.t 7 & rr.2o a.m. ; who died 4 Nov. 1724, and an urn, once containing the dispatched rr.3o a.m. & 5-40 p.m. West Wycombe, 1 heart of Paul Whitehead, a satiric poet patronized by mile distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph Lord Le Despencer, to whom on his death, 30 Dec. office Post Office, Sands.-Charles W. Bryant, sub-postmaster. '774• he bequeathed this relic. The rcgis~er dates from the year 158r, but the book containing the entries to Letters through High Wycombe arrive at 7 a.m. & 1663 is missing. The living is a vicarage, net yearly 4·35 p.m.; dispatched at 6.50 a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; no l'alue £r66, with glebe (£4o), and residence, in the delivery on sunday. West Wycombe, r~ miles distant, gift of the trustees of the late Sir George Henry Dash­ is the nearest money order & telegraph offic~ wood hart. and held since rgog by the Rev. William Wall Letter Box, School, Booker, cleared at 8 a.m. &; Upton Wooler M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. 5.25 p.rn. week days only The church of St. Paul, in the village, at the foot of the Elementary Schools. hill on which stands the church of St. Lawrence, was b West \Vycombe, built in r874, for 200 children; averag~ uilt by Elizabeth, wife of Sir George Henry Dashwood, attendance, ; Georgs Holland, master; Mrs. s. A. sth bart. and opened in October, r875; it is an edifice 140 · k Giles, infants' mistress of br1c , consisting only of chancel and nave: there are two stained windows, presented respectively by Sir T. Downley, built in r873, for rg8 children; average attend- H. Brinckman bart. of Clewer, and J. W. H. V. Gall ance, r6o; John Jack son, master Wheeler End, built in r873, for 135 children; average esq.; the church affords r8o sittings. The church of attendanc'.l, 108 ; James Henry Davies, master .. St. Jamss, at Downley, is a temporary structure of Hooker, built in rBBg, & enlarged in r8g7, for rsu iron, erected in r8:7'4, by the Rev. Henry Savill Young children; average attendance, g6; Gilbert Thomas M:.A. vicar here 1872-6, purchased on its completion Williarns, master by Elizabeth, Lady Dashwood, and enlarged in r876, but on her death, 24 May, r88g, it became the property Sands, built in rgo3, for rso children; average attend- of Captain Henry George Fane, of Bicester, Oxon. and llnce, 136; Alfred Charles Field, master ia now, with the school adjoining, in the hands of R1ilway Station, William H. Buckland, station mas~r trustees: the church will seat r6o persons. There are Carrier to Marlow.-Bradley, thurs · PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bates Phrebe (Mrs.),baker,WhePler end Day William Alfred, Friend-at-Hand Dashwood Lady, West Wycombe park Beauchamp Frederick, Swan P.H Railway station EamondP Fdk. Elm cot. Plomer Hill Bishop Henry, grocer, Lane end Dickson John, farmer, Slough Bottom Ilorth Benjamin J.P. Wyclands Booth Francis W. farmer, Park & Dutton Owen, Squirrel P.H. Hooker N~rth Denjamin Stephen, Briarholme Toweridge farms Edmonds Geo. jobrnaster & butcher To1msend Rev. Raymond (curate) Bradley WaltPr Robert, Chequers inn FiPld George, farmer, Grove farm Wodehouse Edmond Henry C.B., J.P. & carrier, Wheeler end FiPld John, farmer, Ham farm PJ.~mer Hill Brooks William, wheelwright Fryer James Michael, miller (water), Wooler Rev. William Upton M.A. Burt Frederick Charles, Brickmakers' Lower Mill End (vicar), Vicarage Arms P.H. Wheeler end Fryer John. parish clerk

COlU!RRCTAL. 1 Candy Thos (Mrs.), frmr. Bullock fm Fryer Michael, coal merchant, Book er And~rson William, beer ret.Park end Clark & Son, farmers, Rickett's farm, Gihson & Sun, brick maker~. Banker bery Jabez, farmer, Wheeler end Wheelrr end Gih~on GPorge, farmer, ChorlPy farm Bailey Geo. dairyman, Wheeler end Cutler Abel, blacksmith Gillett Francis, farmer, Mill End BT.CKS- 16